Favorite Quotes

[LT Sandpaw]

"The only life worth living is the one you have to die for."-Unknown

"I have given my life many times, but now its time for me to give my death."-King Crispin Mistmantle Chronicles


"If I must die then I will die with honor."-Unknown


"Treat the wounded, bury the dead, and mourn for the living."-Unknown

[Skyblade]

These are all great quotes. This is a great thread! I actually made up a few quotes myself, but I can't say they are completely original because they were inspired by others. For example, the first one is basically a rewording of Sandpaw's third quote

"If I win, I win. If I lose, I lose with honor."

"Seize the opportunity."

"Aim super high, higher than you need to. That way, even if you don't reach your goal, you're bound to end up somewhere that's still good for you."

[Rainshadow]

L:  [speaking to Light]  Either we lose and both die together, or we successfully catch Kira.  [gestures to Misa]  Which is it?
Misa:  We catch Kira!  I would never dream about living in a world without Light!
L:  Yes, that would be dark.

L:  We're running out of time, and I'm starting to get desperate.  As for Misa Amane, I've turned to her because I know her bravery and love for you is boundless.
Misa:  Do you really mean it?  Oh no, I think I've totally misunderstood you all this time!  I even called you a [creep]!  But you actually do understand how I feel, don't you?
L:  Yes!  Misa is indisputably the most perfect and worthy woman for Light.
Misa:  [jumps happily]  YAAAY!  [kisses L on the cheek]  You're such a sweetie!  Thank you, Ryuzaki!
L:  [touches cheek where Misa kissed him, shocked]  [mutters]  I could actually fall for you.
Misa:  Let's not go that far.  But you could maybe be a friend of mine!  Would that be okay?
L:  Yes.  So now I've gained yet another friend.
Misa:  Yeah!  Of course!  Any friend of Light's is a friend of mine as well!  [grabs L by the wrist]  [giggles as Misa, L, and Light spin in a circle]  Let's all be friends together!
L:  [as they're spinning and Misa's giggling]  Woo... yay...

  ~ L (Ryuzaki) and Misa from Death Note.

  That scene might possibly be my favourite Death Note scene so far, aside from the "I'll take a chip... AND EAT IT!" scene and the tennis match scene.  For being such a serious and dark show with two incredibly intelligent main characters, L and Light are overdramatic dorks. 

[Wylder Treejumper]

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt

To try mightily, to risk everything you have, and to win through work and daring a success takes a brave man. To try with all your might, to risk everything, and in doing so fail... To lose it all, to bend down, pick up the pieces, and move forward... That makes a great man.

[Luftwaffles]

"If there was no God it would be necessary to invent him" - Voltaire.

[Skyblade]

This one really hit me, and still does:
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
~ Og Mandino

And I posted this one in another thread, but will repeat it because it's that inspiring:
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
~ Abraham Lincoln

[Luftwaffles]

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors, but today we kneel only to truth" - Khalil Gibran.

[Gonff the Mousethief]

Some of my two are in my Signature, but here they are:

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
- C. S. Lewis

Two more are:

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Courage is found in unlikely places.
- J. R. R. Tolkien


Short but sweet! 

[Banya]

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."
—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

[Luftwaffles]

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."
—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

That's an awesome quote. Thank you for sharing it

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" - Edmund Burke.

So much truth in this one.

[Izeroth]

 "A room without books is like a body without a soul." -Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Maudie]

"Sometimes I question my sanity; and sometimes it answers."

[Luftwaffles]

"You know, as much as I'd like to claim this is a result of me being a genius, it's more that someone else is not!" -  Ross Scott.

[Banya]

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[Jetthebinturong]

Cool first sentences in books:

Spoiler

"Gordon Edgley's death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself." - Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (In the US it's called Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients)

"When Dreylan Scarab had been locked away in his little cell, he'd thought about nothing but murder." - Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days by Derek Landy

"The formidable glass-and-steel structure rose from its position on Front Street like a glittering needle threading the sky." - City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

"The cold snap of the previous week was over; the sun was shining brightly as Clary hurried across Luke's dusty front yard, the hood of her jacket up to keep her hair from blowing across her face." - City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

"On the day Emma Carstairs's parents were killed, the weather was perfect."  - City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

"It was a sad moment in Magnus Bane's life when he was banned from Peru by the High Council of Peruvian warlocks." - What Really Happened in Peru by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

"It took Magnus nearly twenty minutes to notice the boy shooting out all the lights in the room, but to be fair, he had been distracted by the décor." - The Midnight Heir by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

"It was Friday night in Brooklyn, and the city lights were reflecting off the sky: orange-tinted clouds pressing summer heat against the sidewalks like a flower between the pages of a book." - The Course of True Love (And First Dates) by Cassandra Clare

"The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons, and took me to a new boarding school." - The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

"The end of the world started when a Pegasus landed on the hood of my car." - The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

"It is Nicko's first night out of the House of Foryx, and Jenna thinks he is going a little crazy." - Syren by Angie Sage

"The anpu appeared first, tall jackal-headed warriors with solid red eyes and saber-teeth, wearing highly polished black glass armor." - The Warlock by Michael Scott

"It was a very distinct sound, the quiet scraping of steel on stone, that first told him that his visitors had arrived, followed by a strange sort of tapping and the shuffling of feet." - Here, There be Dragons by James A. Owen

"It was not the soothing notes of a lullaby that lured the children from their beds, but it was a song nonetheless." - The Search for the Red Dragon by James A. Owen

"In the centuries that would pass, the spacious stone room known as Solitude would fill with an accumulation of culture; not by design, but because those who would eventually come to seek the occupant's skills would feel an obligation to bring something, anything, as gifts, or perhaps tribute." - The Indigo King by James A. Owen

"It might be said that a mystery is simply a secret to which no one knows the answer." - The Shadow Dragons by James A. Owen

"Pulling his trench coat tighter against the cold drizzle of the Northampton rain, the Zen Detective sighed and checked his watch." - The Dragons of Winter by James A. Owen

"Stories have existed since the beginning of the world, and human history itself consists of little more than the stories that survived." - The First Dragon by James A. Owen

"From a distance, the man struggling up the white face of the glacier might have looked like an ant crawling slowly up the side of a dinner plate." - The Iron Trial by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black

"After a year of slavery in the Salt Mines of Endovier, Celaena Sardothien was accustomed to being escorted everywhere in shackles and at sword-point." - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

"Victor readjusted the shovels on his shoulder and stepped gingerly over an old, half-sunken grave." - Vicious by V. E. Schwabb

"The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood, heaving in the choppy sea; a stroke might easily bring down the man making it as the intended target." - Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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